Name: English Vocabulary & Expressions for SHOPPING in North America
Uploaded: 2021-11-16T19:50:10.000Z
Duration: 15 min 32 s
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Gerund

See all the different food but we have to be very, very careful when we go shopping or not.

Doesn't matter if you like to waste money and spend money.

But if you're like me and you like to save money and you like sales.

The problem is the corporations and the stores they're out to get you.

Do you want to trick you into spending more of your hard earned cash or money or putting things on your credit card?

Beware means be careful if you're going to buy something, be careful now.

This could be the reason why it takes me two hours to go to the grocery store and buy food for a week.

A grocery store is like a food store um As opposed to a regular store which has closed and everything.

Some grocery stores sell everything like towels, pots, pans, clothes, wow, that's like three hours for me.

So just in a supermarket or a grocery store, it takes me hours if you see me in the supermarket say hi, I might say hi back and throw grapes at you or something.

Now flyer is a piece of paper with that advertises things.

You can find them online, which isn't a piece of paper or you can find them in the newspaper and they basically are attracting you to go to their stores.

So they have many different kinds of supermarkets, many brands many it's chaos.

But I'm going to give you some terms, it'll help you sort out the best deals.

We have to be careful of the words that we use or the promotions that they're actually giving us.

So for example on a flash sale it could be from eight AM.

So this means you only have four hours to buy this product at 50% off.

If you go there at 7:58 and you buy it, it's full price, but only from nine a.m. To 12 p.m. It's half price.

Sometimes we call these impulse buys impulse buys me and you right now don't think about it.

Just give me your money, which you can do but we have to be careful of these daily deals, they're a little bit different from a flash sale from, from a fire sale.

Daily deals are usually monday And Tuesday, they have a special deal or on Saturday and Sunday this product is 599.

The all of the other days it's going to be 799.

So you can actually get some good deals, but if you miss the daily deal, you have to pay full price.

So again these are techniques to get you to the store on certain days it's the same with buy it now or must by these three are based on usually a day.

So for example sunday or monday it's half price.

Mm I don't know usually on the weekend things go on sale but that is kind of illogical because that's when everyone else goes shopping.

So one thing that I really like mm we could call this my hobby is something called price match.

So the store might call it price match or price promise.

This is a fantastic way for you to save money.

Sometimes electronic stores will also offer this but a price match or price promise basically means if you see the product at another store for a cheaper price they will give you the product at the same price as the other store.

Let me clarify this, let's say that you go to store a.

Buy it now is 599 but I am a smart shopper.

And this other marker which is also red At the other store is 399.

If I take the flyer or the advertisement to the red marker Store A.

They will give me this price of this store.

So basically you go to the story go hey this store B has this for $5.

Yes so basically they want you to shop only at their store, they don't want you to go to different stores.

But again you have to do your homework, you gotta check, you gotta look how much is it here?

Another thing that is very tricky sometimes gets me is if you see a sign like this it says the entire store 70% off.

No you guys watching this video on your phone you probably can't see this red writing that says up to on it says on selected styles.

So really you think oh if you're looking at this on a big screen you can see the red writing.

So I can go into a store and everything is 70% off.

How exciting let's go uh and then you get to the store and you put the stuff on the counter and the person clips it through And it's not 70% off and you go what is going on?

And they go yeah it says on the sign in very small writing Up to 70% off on selected style.

So this means they will only have certain things that they choose 70% off stuff in the store might not even be on sale.

So you're there and you've just bought everything for full price almost.

As a rule by law, they actually must right up to and on selected styles.

This thing here is called an Astra's Astra's or star.

The Astros will show you the exception to something, so that means all great.

Oh there's an astra's not a great deal anymore.

Um I see this a lot in supermarkets, so if you buy three, it's $5 so you think oh great, great.

I'm gonna buy I'm gonna buy three for $5.

But you see the asterix again, by the way, it's called Asterix.

Um You see this nasty little asterisk again.

And uh You can buy three for $5 but You don't actually want three watermelons Who can eat three watermelons will someone that's hungry.

I guess you just want to buy one of them.

So you think, okay, so if there's three for $5.01 of them is going to be a dollar 67 what a deal.

So you have to be careful because sometimes they will charge you more If you don't buy 3?

So you actually have to buy three watermelons.